How to Use Twitter Effectively

Twitter is a valuable resource for any internet marketer. Learn to use Twitter effectively, and you could expand your network of business associates ten fold.

Twitter is a free social mini blogging site, and is proving very useful, with more than seven thousand new users signing up every day.

With Twitter you can look for people who have similar interests to yourself to follow, and most of the time they will follow you back. You can even follow your favorite celebrities or sporting hero's. If you aspire to be successful, why not find some successful people to follow, and see what they do each day.

With Twitter you can grow your network very quickly, by finding others to follow, and their friends in turn will end up following you. Don't turn Twitter into a place to pitch your sales talk. The best way to think of Twitter is like you are going to a party and meeting other like minded people. If you open your mouth and try and sell them something, they will quickly back away from you. First get to know them and ask them what they do. They will eventually want to find out what you do too.

When you post entries onto your Twitter account, make them a good mixture of entertaining and helpful comments, interesting tidbits and every now and then you can recommend one of your products.

When you tweet on Twitter, make it to the point, as you only have a hundred and forty characters to say what you need to say. Make your tweets interesting and helpful, and you will build up and keep your followers a lot longer.

Replying to other people's tweets is a good way to use Twitter. You can do this by putting a @ in front of the user name, or simply clicking on the arrow at the end of the tweet that you want to reply to. You can also send someone a direct message that only they can see, and this function makes it very handy to build up relationships with others. You will gain more Twitter followers if you make your tweets interesting and informative.

Twitter is a wonderful platform to connect with new people. Use your Twitter connections to exchange new ideas or even enter into joint ventures or partnerships. Helping and encouraging each other is one of the perks of having a Twitter account. By using the leverage of the internet and Twitter, anything is possible.